[My own dear Mother has been with the Lord for nearly a quarter century, but
I wish I could send some of these to her. My heart-felt love and
appreciation for her only grows stronger in her memory. Yesterday we sent
some “funnies”; today is from the heart.]
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if
they didn’t.
– Barbara Kingsolver
Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs… since the
payment is pure love.
– Mildred B. Vermont
Life is nothing but a series of crosses for us mothers.
– Colette
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
– Oprah Winfrey
Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and
fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet
flower of love.
– Stevie Wonder
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at de sun.’ We
might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
– Zora Neale Hurston
A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five
people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.
– Tenneva Jordan
This heart, my own dear mother, bends, with love’s true instinct, back to
thee!
– Thomas Moore
God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.
– Rudyard Kipling
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always
find forgiveness.
– Honore de Balzac
The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men –
from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Dr Bob Griffin, www.grif.net
“Jesus knows me, this I love”